Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

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This cursory survey by zoologist Moretzsohn (The Book of Shells), who died in 2020, compiles trivia on “shells secreted by snails, clams and other molluscs.” Though Moretzsohn touches on how mollusks ...

In the late 1700s, a woman collected over a thousand seashells from all over the world. The collection was believed to be lost for decades, until they were saved from the garbage in the 1980s. In the ...

In the late 1700s, a woman named Bridget Atkinson collected over a thousand seashells from all over the world without ever leaving her village in the rural English county of Cumberland. FRANCES ...

In the last century, more than 2,000 square miles of Louisiana’s coastline have been lost to the sea. Tribal lands in the state’s southeast are among the most impacted. As NewsHour New Orleans ...